In the time Pluto was found, classified as a planet and reclassified as a dwarf planet, it has not completed one orbit. One ...

Scientists recently detected carbon dioxide and hydrogen peroxide on the frozen surface of Charon, Pluto's largest moon. The researchers conducted the survey using the James Webb ...

Scientists have noticed something strange about Pluto and its big moon, Charon, and it's making them rethink a lot! Unlike ...

The possibility of life beyond Earth has filled our imaginations and been a driving force behind space exploration for ...

The changing faces of Pluto| The predominant color of Pluto's surface is thought to result from ultraviolet radiation from the distant Sun breaking down methane on the planet's surface, leaving a dark ...

But there's something else odd out here. Another world close by. How did Charon and Pluto end up almost touching? Charon orbits about 12,000 miles from the surface of Pluto, which sounds like a ...

Pluto has five moons—“fun-looking space potatoes,” Singer calls them—and its largest is a behemoth. Charon was discovered in 1978 when scientists noticed Pluto appeared to elongate every ...

A Southwest Research Institute-led team combined compositional data of primitive bodies like Kuiper Belt objects, asteroids ...

Charon, Pluto's largest moon, has become the focal point of a major discovery. Using the James Webb Space Telescope, researchers have identified the presence of carbon dioxide on its surface. This ...